Good tips. Thanks! how long does it usually take to load a tune? (ballpark). just curious.
Thanks! Ric gnerd wrote: > > Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > <snip> > > > Loading the files could be scripted easily enough to automate that... > > I was going to use mkplaylist.pl > (http://www.linux.org/apps/AppId_1731.html) as a base starting point to > do that myself, but my priorities got changed for me and I never got > around to it. It recurses directories (relative) and makes a playlist > for desktop mp3 players. I figured I'd modify it to randomly select > tunes, check the size and make a playlist just big enough to fill my > Rio, then start going down the list and loading them up with rioutil. > > Something to be aware of: There's a time lag between rioutil thinking > it's done uploading a tune and the Rio being done processing it into > storage. As you would expect, the time lag is dependent on the size of > the file. At any rate, if a new tune starts to upload while a previous > one is processing on the Rio, one of three things will happen: The > first tune will be truncated, completely absent, or the current tune > will abort loading. > > So in a script, you'd want to trap for a return code from the Rio (if it > generates one; and it must), or block for a time based on the size of > each tune prior to starting another upload. Even loading things > manually, you have to watch the processing indicator on the Rio's > interface before you start loading again. > > Mike > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/
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